Human Ecology

Human ecology is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study of the relationship between humans and their natural, social, and built environments. The philosophy and study of human ecology has a diffuse history with advancements in ecology, geography, sociology, psychology, anthropology, zoology, epidemiology, public health, and home economics, among others.

The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Fundamentals of Human Ecology
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Global Ecology and Unequal Exchange: Fetishism in a Zero-Sum World (Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics)
Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century (World Social Change)
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World (The Bioneers Series)
The Practice of the Wild
The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive

It took me more than a decade to work my way through the landscape. I owe my liberation from it to the work of geographer David Lowenthal and social critic Marshall McLuhan. Their writing convinced me that the world-as-picture was, on one hand, geared to the superficiality of taste and, on the other, an outcome of a Renaissance mathematical perspective that tended to separate rather than join. Walter Ong's essay "The World as View and the World as Event" convinced me that this distinction betwee ...more
Paul Shepard

Jo Nesbø
Your mother should have treated him better, he was her patron, after all. Just like the parasite that is humanity should treat this planet better.
Jo Nesbø, Killing Moon

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